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Scarlet Snow Solid-water “land” where narwhales are precious stones with too-rich flesh but with opened gut, provide life; where caribou and whiskered walrus want to empty their deadness and used-meal vitamin C plant life for survival of the Inuit people; “land” of hunter and hunted equilibria dependent each upon the other according to seasons and appetites in a 9-month, 6 million square mile winter desert where only fish swim and, relying on scratched breathing holes, ringed seals remain to hunt the frigid brine beneath a vast iciness; a shoreless whiteness where bloody snow does not indicate death but signifies life floating on ice islands and floes, fissured expanses with Inuktitut words, solitude, reindeer and caribou herds, stealthily gliding polar bear shadows and whale breaths whooshing into cackles of carrion-seeking gulls in the ephemeral summer – this “land” renews belief in the brief vitality and uniqueness of life. |
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